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I don’t speak hebrew but someone online said that this is an unnecessarily literal translation of "double colon" and it’s not what most developers would call it. Take that with a grain of salt though.


The history of that entire fiasco is quite comprehensivly summarized at https://phil.tech/2013/wtf-is-t-paamayim-nekudotayim/ .


What a childish rant that blog post is though...


That was a nice history lesson actually. I remember being confused at the error message, looking it up, being confused at the explanation... because I hadn't learned static calls yet. I may not have even understood classes at that point, but that was way back in the day.

If PHP support has to handle the same stupid question about the meaning of a very unnecessary term that's confusing people and causing more support requests than anything else... then it made sense to change it.

I'm glad I read the blog post; it clears up a LOT of thoughts I had about the error... calling it childish seems off. Maybe you had a dog in the fight at some point?


> Maybe you had a dog in the fight at some point?

No! But read the part where Rasmus Lerdorf "beams into" the conversation and his opinion is dismissed with "let's take a vote".

I mean, if you wanted a language that wasn't intentionally designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, you kinda picked the wrong one. This is what I was referring to.


Seems plausible since afaik the other constants were in English, so this seems to be a developer's joke.


It was a joke, a troll really, that just gave PHP haters something else to deride the language with to people who don't know it that well.


If you look it up, this token can have two names. It is indeed a double colon :)


Oooh now I wonder if it literally means "dual intestine".


Nope, it's literally "twice colon" where colon is specifically the punctuation mark. פעמים נקודותיים


Ahh dreams dashed.


I thought we were talking about colons?


Dashed? Em-dashed? Hyphenated? Or just subtracted?


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I’m sure people will hate on this because it’s Adobe but their Premier Rush is great for extremely simple editing purposes. It does constantly feel like you’re being scammed though because there are some checkboxes labelled with a little star that require you to pay.


Yeah default users are fine, but the basic architecture of Linux (and, to my knowledge, all operating systems) means that there’s no meaningful way to create a user without creating a password, so you can’t have a default user without a default password.


On the contrary - when you create a user using useradd, it initially has no password, and so cannot log in.


I think you have a misunderstanding of what the change is and what the previous situation was.


I probably do. The actual page won't open (there is a Cloudflare error) and the title is all I know.


Good, but frankly it’s pretty embarrassing for them that it took the threat of a multi-million pound fine before they made this change.


Right now it would be pretty noisy even on slow-moving games, but it’s a good start. I’ve never done graphics work professionally so take this with a grain of salt, but I’d wager that fast-moving games can probably actually get away with tricks like this even more than slow-moving ones because you can add motion blur on top of it and players will rarely have a chance to closely investigate the graphics, which allows you to take more shortcuts.


Not to mention noise removal fullscreen/2d/postprocessing

Or doing all this light pass at a lower resolution and then upscaling it & denoising at the same time


The sony cameras support a fair amount of external control, I’ve never written code for it directly but third-party apps have no issue other than the requirement that you connect to the camera as a wifi access point, which is a pain but understandable.


I had a sticker on my work laptop at my old company with the company logo edited to say "ecstasy" and no-one ever commented on it


Ah yes, the best way to bury a moral scandal of the kind that usually gets forgotten in a week is to undermine the trust of almost every single user worldwide. This is a very good conspiracy.


It’s not just "social media junkies", a very pretentious phrase to use considering you’re writing it in a comment on a social network. Hundreds of thousands of apps use Facebook APIs, often in the background too (including FB's own apps).


Is "alcoholic" a very pretentious word to use considering that the person saying it has a beer once a week?


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